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The Karlsruhe Congress was an international meeting of chemists organized by August Kekulé and held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 3 to 5 September 1860. It was the first international conference of chemistry with 140 participants. The conference is known for the adoption of atomic weights in chemistry motivated by the participation of Stanislao ...
3 days ago · The length of the Rhine was long given as 820 miles (1,320 km), but in 2010 a shorter distance of about 765 miles (1,230 km) was proposed. An international waterway since the Treaty of Vienna in 1815, it is navigable overall for some 540 miles (870 km), as far as Rheinfelden on the Swiss-German border. Its catchment area, including the delta ...
Fritz Haber. Fritz Haber ( German pronunciation: [ˈfʁɪt͡s ˈhaːbɐ] ⓘ; 9 December 1868 – 29 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. This invention is important ...
Encyclopædia Britannica har modtaget kritik, især fordi deres udgaver er forældet. Det er dyrt at producere en helt ny udgave af Britannica, og dens redaktionelle forsinkelse medfører, at der går ca. 10-25 år mellem udgivelserne. For eksempel da den amerikanske fysiker Harvey Einbinder i 1964 detaljeret skrev om manglerne i sin bog, Myten ...
May 25, 2024 · Martin Luther King, Jr. (born January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.—died April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee) was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to that movement’s success in ending the ...
4 days ago · Carl Jung (born July 26, 1875, Kesswil, Switzerland—died June 6, 1961, Küsnacht) was a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who founded analytic psychology, in some aspects a response to Sigmund Freud ’s psychoanalysis. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extraverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and the ...
3 days ago · University of Cambridge, English autonomous institution of higher learning at Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam 50 miles (80 km) north of London. The start of the university is generally taken as 1209, when scholars from Oxford migrated to Cambridge to escape Oxford’s riots of “town and gown” (townspeople versus scholars).
